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“Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.”
― André Breton
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Alebrijes are
brightly colored Mexican folk
art sculptures of fantastical creatures. The first alebrijes,
along with use of the term, originated with Pedro Linares. In the
1930s, Linares fell very ill and while he was in bed, unconscious, Linares
dreamt of a strange place resembling a forest. There, he saw trees, animals,
rocks, clouds that suddenly turned into something strange, some kind of
animals, but, unknown animals. He saw a donkey with butterfly wings, a rooster
with bull horns, a lion with an eagle head, and all of them were shouting one
word, "Alebrijes". Upon recovery, he began recreating the creatures
he saw in cardboard and paper mache and called them Alebrijes. [Wiki]
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These
strange-colored monsters or Alebrijes were invented by Pedro Linares, who saw
them in a dream when he was 30, and very sick.
While he lay in bed
unconscious, he dreamed of a strange and different place. A forest appeared
with trees, animals, clouds, blue sky, rocks and other things, and where all
the animals had turned into strange, unknown creatures.
He saw a donkey with
butterfly’s wings, a rooster with an eagle’s head and others that all shouted
the word, Alebrijes. The animals began to shout louder and louder, Alebrijes,
Alebrijes, Alebrijes!
The sound was
terrible and he wanted to get away. A man told him that it still wasn’t time
for him to be there and that he would have to start walking in order to find
the exit. Later, he came across a narrow window, climbed through, and suddenly
awoke.
When Pedro was able
to get out of bed, he began to remember his dream and wanted his family and other people to
see these animals. So, he took some paper and began to mold the figures he had
seen; he then painted them like those he saw in his dream.
Now, Miguel Linares
(his son), Paula Garcia (daughter in law), Ricardo Linares and Miguel Linares
(grandson) have continued the tradition of making Alebrijes.
There are thousands
of Alebrijes that have been molded from papier mache, painted with bright
colors and covered with mysterious drawings.
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| Somnicus Feminamorphic by Fabian Hernandez (Alebrijes Exhibition) |
